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Nigel

There was a boy called Nigel so one day Nigel grabs his glass, and stares into the sun filled room, like a seaman searching for land. Not for the first time in a couple of years he’s scowling deeply. Their relationship had begun in this sunlit space. Thinking back, he loses count of the times since then they have tried to draw a line, to move on, to get on with their lives.
The light now is exactly as that day two years before, low autumn rays splaying fans across the carpet. The quiet too is the same. He notices usually hidden sounds - heating thermostat ticking, water pumping to radiators, wall clock scratching. They had kissed in this light, made love in this quiet, and caressed each ...

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he knows the buttons to press too well. He taps out the last few lines and attaches it to an email. Please see attached. We need to talk. Don’t reply to this email, I will ring or text x. Then, with a flurry of adept mouse-clicks he obliterates any record his proposition.
Leaning backwards in the chair Nigel knocks back his whisky, sucking every last drop of the smoky Laphroaig through the ice. He thinks of Celia. Of ten years spent furnishing their house; of buying art he couldn’t afford; of dinner parties with ‘influential’ people. Not for much longer, he thinks. Soon he will be free.
He pushes himself upright and strides out of the study, leather soles breaking the silence like a slow hand-clap. Four slender fingers and a silver-ringed thumb drag back through his dark, still thick hair, then ruffle the front and pull a couple of wisps between his full, arched eyebrows. He glides past limited edition prints, down the polished pine hall to the kitchen. As he pours more ...

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Added: 9/7/2011 09:13:01 AM
Submitted By: Ali_Araji1874
Category: Creative Writing
Type: Free Paper
Words: 822
Pages: 3

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